During Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban's visit to Baku, Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjártó said that the first stone was laid to reconstruct the road to the village of Soltanli in Nagorno-Karabakh.

Soltanli village will be restored by a Hungarian company, which will allow five-six thousand people to return to it," he added. The minister recalled the agreement reached between Baku and Budapest, according to which residential houses, public buildings, hospitals, schools, kindergartens, and sports facilities will be rebuilt in Soltanli. "This ground-breaking ceremony is the first step towards full reconstruction and is another sign of true friendship between Hungary and Azerbaijan," Szijjártó added.

Peter Szijjártó visited the Nagorno-Karabakh region as the first foreign minister of a European Union country. He said that it would be desirable to sign a peace treaty between Azerbaijan and Armenia as soon as possible to end the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. "We are Hungarians, a peace-loving people, and we know you are all peace-loving people. We believe that everyone in the region has the right to live in peace in the years, decades, and centuries to come," the Hungarian minister concluded.

The minister also noted that Hungary has been working for thirteen years to build a genuine strategic partnership with Azerbaijan, considered an important friend and ally of Hungary. "This friendship is not a natural gas friendship. When we first came here with Prime Minister [Orban] thirteen years ago, we were met with criticism and attacks from our European partners about why we came to Azerbaijan. European and other Western politicians who attacked us at that time and criticized us, on the other hand, are now doing their best to be photographed with the President of Azerbaijan for natural gas," the official noted.

Szijjártó summarized, "We have always favored Azerbaijan in terms of its sovereignty and territorial integrity."